Hello out there and happy spring!
Hoping someone can lend advise on one of my new sapphire gems not being able to lay a solid egg. It’s pretty much every day now when I go to collect the eggs they are all covered in yoke because one had broke. Sometimes the shells are there, sometimes not. If...
Hi Sacey,
I do not know what the temp was. I presume she is puffed up because of the fever and she has stayed puffed since. I have been feeding her grower feed mash with Vitasol mixed in in case it was a vitamin deficiency with no results. She definately feels heavier than she was and about...
Thanks eggcessive. No curled toes. I can post some pics after work. No new birds either. My other 4 hens look well and are not showing any symptoms. I would have to agree that she might have internal tumors because her tail is kept down and she looks like she is straining but poops just...
Hello Community.
I have a three year old Buff Orpington who has been sick for about 5 weeks now. I first noticed several months before I separated her that when she would sit in my lap she was falling asleep/closing her eyes more frequently and for longer periods. When I would let the girls...
Agreed. This site rocks and people here are very supportive. Again, thank you all!
There is no other place that I truly feel we all understand each other's sucesses and support our fellow chicken owners when we are in the fog of the unknown.
If I have further queries regarding their health I...
Thank you all.
Barbara, I feel like brewing a pot of coffee, sitting my chickens in a circle and reading them your reply. You have settled my anxiety and given me reassurance to press forward and deal with all of the bad things that come with all of the good. If you don't mind I'd like to stay...
Good article on Marek's, thank you. So basically, unless all 6 of my other girls pass and I get an opportunity to eradicate my coop (which sounds impossible), I'm stuck with this thing forever. It's in the sand, run, the woods where my girls hang out, and it's there for possibly 5 years. I am...
I thought about freezing her so just before I burried her I called the only number I could find. Granted it's labor day but the gentlemen I got on the phone was clueless if they could perform a necropsy. I just decided to bury and keep a close eye on my other birds. I agree though, Marek's is my...
Hey everyone, lonnnnnng time BYC stalker first time poster.
Picked up 4 new chickens back in july to replace 3 that had been grabbed by a fox. The new ones were all approximately 12 weeks at the time so about 5 days ago I started to mix layer feed as the time seemed appropriate. One of the new...